Old Friends And Potatoes I Never Knew.

Needs a edit.

 

Staring down a turkey that was a little bigger then my head

I felt that I once knew it

Or at least said hello to it in passing

I thought about this for a while

My grandfather boasted of the price he got for it

At a local grocery store

 

I went back to peeling the potatoes

Whom I was sure that I never meet before

If the turkey was alive it probably would have winked at me

And said something on the lines of “gobble, gobble”

Or some other kind of gobble-lee-gook

 

I thought, Even if I knew the turkey

I would probably still eat it

Does this make me a bad person?

The turkey was dead

If I didn’t eat it well

Would its death mean nothing?

 

I cut my thumb with the potato peeler 

This led me to getting a band-aid

That then led my mom to worry about me using anything sharp

Thus my sister got to peel the rest of the potatoes

And I was left to prepare my old friend

The turkey

 

I thought I could hear it talking to me in that 

Gobble-lee-gook manner only turkeys had

And perhaps squid,

If squid had a mind to say anything

Which to my knowledge they didn’t

 

The turkey on the other hand did

It told me of its life

Grown on some farm in Washington

Eating the finest feed

I felt compelled to ask it if it remembered me

 

This I probably should have not said out loud

My sister laughter did not change the turkeys answer

That in fact we have meet once

But like me the turkey did not remember where

I would have questioned it more but the buzzer beep

And all the turkey was saying was how happy it was

To have lived a full life

 

I stopped hearing its voice when I shut the oven door

I heard nothing when I pulled the turkey out

I said goodbye to my friend in the only way I know how

With some gravy and those potatoes that I never knew.

Reviews

[Legion]

A most sentimental write. :) I love this. True, it does need some work in the grammatical department (although some spots probably should be left to give it character), but this is a brilliant piece pertaining to relationships in life. Be they with people, animals, or inanimate objects. This is going in my favorites. Kudos to you. :)